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Volume 5, Issue 6 , Pages 814-821 , June 2008

Common ß-adrenergic receptor polymorphisms are not associated with risk of sudden cardiac death in patients with coronary artery disease

Zian H. Tseng, MD, MAS
- Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
- Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. Zian H. Tseng, Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, 500 Parnassus Avenue, Box 1354, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California 94143-1354.
Bradley E. Aouizerat, PhD
- Department of Physiologic Nursing, University of California, San Francisco
- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
Ludmila Pawlikowska, PhD
- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
Eric Vittinghoff, PhD, MPH
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
Feng Lin, MS
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
Dean Whiteman, BS
- Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
Annie Poon, BA
- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
David Herrington, MD, MHS
- Department of Internal Medicine, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Timothy D. Howard, PhD
- Department of Pediatrics, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Paul D. Varosy, MD
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, University of California, San Francisco
Stephen B. Hulley, MD, MPH
- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of California, San Francisco
Mary Malloy, MD
- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco.
John Kane, MD, PhD
- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco.
Pui-Yan Kwok, MD, PhD
- Institute for Human Genetics, University of California, San Francisco
- Cardiovascular Research Institute, University of California, San Francisco.
Jeffrey E. Olgin, MD, FHRS
- Section of Cardiac Electrophysiology, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco

Received 8 December 2007 ,Accepted 11 March 2008.

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This research was funded by grants from the National Center for Research Resources, a component of the National Institutes of Health and the National Institutes of Health Roadmap for Medical Research (KL2 RR024130).

The authors thank Mintu Turakhia, MD, and Clive Pullinger, PhD, for assistance with the UCSF SCD Study, Jon Witte, PhD, for critical evaluation of the manuscript and Kimberly Lee, MD, for assistance with the figures.

PII: S1547-5271(08)00280-4

doi: 10.1016/j.hrthm.2008.03.016

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